Transit • Bus & Subway Times
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Navigate NYC, LA & 135+ cities

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Description

"Gives you the best route to where you want to go" - New York Times“You won't realize how much time you can save planning until you use this app” - LA Times“Killer app” - WSJ "MBTA has a favorite transit app — and it's called Transit" - Boston Globe

Transit is your real-time urban travel companion. Navigate your city’s public transit system with accurate real-time predictions, simple trip planning, step-by-step navigation, service disruption notifications, and departure and stop reminders... all presented in a clear, bold interface. Public transport not cooperating? Easily request a ride from Uber, Lyft or VIA, or grab the closest bikeshare.

10 GREAT THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH TRANSIT:1) See real-time arrivals for nearby buses and trains instantly upon launch.2) Watch your transit vehicle approaching on a map in real-time3) Compare options with powerful A to B trip plans using real-time data.4) Launch GO for step-by-step navigation when you’re on an unfamiliar route or want to nap/read/space out.*5) Receive departure alarms and stop notifications as well as prompts to pick up the pace in GO.*6) Get push notifications if service disruptions will affect your commute.7) Plan trips, view transit schedules and get route itineraries—even when you’re offline! 8) Locate bikeshare stations, see the number of bikes available, pay for passes, and unlock bikes (in select cities). 9) Check ETA (and price) for nearby Uber, Lyft and VIA rides, and book in two taps.10) Easily plan and pay for a trip combining Uber, Lyft, or VIA with transit. We call it Transit+

*continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

5-STAR USER REVIEWS“Your app was the deciding factor in selling my car”“Blows Google Maps out of the water.” "Probably the best thing on my phone, no joke."“The head of our local transit agency recommended this app over the one her agency created.”"Truly ingenious work here. Honestly, these guys should be in charge of actual public transportation itself."

CITIESTransit works in 175+ cities across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand (see USA list below).

* Uses real-time predictions & vehicle locations for some or all routes.

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Transit also works in cities around the world. View select cities below and the full list at transitapp.com

CANADATorontoCalgaryMontreal+26 more

EUROPEBerlinLondonParis+16 more

What’s New

Mar 16, 2019

Version 5.2.11

Montreal is on the cusp of spring. AKA it’s a veritable slush swamp. Coming into work, dodging the sidewalk pools of questionable liquids… the skies bleached of colour… the weather that is neither hot nor mild nor cold, just a sad grey blah… it requires the sort of resilience that even mighty Russell Crowe (the gladiator — not the crow named Russell) would shirk at. And our release notes writer… that shirking coward on vacation.

Thank the heroic Transit dev team for fixing these bugs amidst the blah:

- App sometimes froze when you checked bus frequencies- Bus frequencies have since been put in the microwave- GO notifications would sometimes add a “transfer” to the end of your journey.- Now we’ll tell you to disembark, instead of telling you to “disem-NO WAIT HOP ON THAT TRAINNNN”- The search bar text colour had a weird “tint”- We’ve since reverted to vintage tintage.

All that and more. Like new, elevation-sensitive trip plans: we’ll no longer tell you to bike up Mount Olympus when a longer (but less treacherous) shortcut will do.

Sacrifice 5 stars to appease the almighty Zeus. For bug sightings, hit up @transitapp. To contact the release notes writer, send a message in a bottle and cross your fingers for Brazil. Tchau!

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5

32.4K Ratings

32.4K Ratings

aznosmao
, 12/07/2018

Everything in one place, but time estimates are messed up

I really like how this app got both the buses and the subway lines in my area. Wish they could integrate university shuttles in but maybe that would be too complex.Recently, their estimate times for buses in the Boston area are WHACK. I arrive at my usual time of 8:55 AM, and the CT1 either is pulling up right then or a little late. While I’m walking up to the stop trying to see if I should run the rest of the way, it says the bus is coming in two minutes. Alright, I hurry. I look at their live time tracker and it says the bus is one minute past the bus stop, where it’s already left. WHAT?! I sprint and look down the street, no sign of a public transit bus. I look the other way to see if it’s really left, also no sign. The app updates saying I have to wait 18 minutes. Great. I sit down and try to be kind to myself, and three minutes later, the bus from the exact line arrives. ??? If I had left after the app updated for an alternate route, I would have been even more late. I do my part to use the GO feature since now Transit has shown its default location tracking feature to be as incompetent as the former NextBus. That’s why 3 stars instead of 1. My life isn’t worse off than it was before, but I definitely expected it to be better, as when I first started using this app, I had little to no complaints.

Abso12345!
, 02/01/2019

Houston area

I mainly take the metro to get to and from the University of Houston. Downloaded this app around a year ago or two, its pretty great at showing me the nearest line to where I’m trying to leave from. It’s also pretty great letting you know if you’ll have to take a second bus and showing the walking distance to actually get to your destination. It even shows you the estimated time it would take if you took an Uber or Lyft. As a student I wanna make sure to arrive to my classes on time, so it’s great being able to see my options. Honestly much better than just looking at google maps imo. I’m not giving it a full 5 starts just because sometimes the bus will arrive either earlier or later then the time it gives you but that’s understandable it’s not always going to be 100% accurate. I get that same issue even when I use the cities official metro text service, where it sends the time schedule for the bus, like I said not going to ever be 100% because there’s a lot of other factors one needs to take into account like traffic etc. overall I would recommend this app to anyone not familiar with their local metro service like if your knew to the city or just taking the metro for the first time, it comes in handy if you want to make sure you’re getting on the right bus.

amazingbosscoffee
, 10/02/2018

Pay Close Attention

This app is essential for my travel to and from college. I've noticed however that the time it tells you to leave is way too late every time, and I end up missing the bus by a minute or two. Even leaving earlier than the recommended departure, I will miss the bus. Not only that, but it has no way of alerting you when you've taken the wrong bus. It says "Unplanned Detour" which is really inconvenient for someone new to public transport who doesn't know the stops for other buses. You'll believe you're on the right bus and there IS a detour, maybe because the stops are correct up until a certain point when really the app just can't track you because you're obviously not on the route of the bus you were supposed to take. Please find a way to fix this. I don't know if you could make some sort of route recognition that would know if you've taken an actual detour or if you're simply on the wrong bus. On top of that, it gave me an estimated arrival at my destination, changed to a half hour later. All when the bus was the WRONG bus. Why on earth would there be an estimated arrival for that, if the bus is never getting there in the first place?